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BAHAHAHAHA!!! M$ wants to charge you to use hotmail now!!! LOL!

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Hmmm. I respect members and in particular NFS4, and I respect SunnyD for posting this thread and remaining civil. But I'm being attacked here where I don't think I should be. Just posting "RSI is a dumbass" is lame enough, and then simply quoting that, well that's even lamer, sorry to say. How about you post when you have something useful to say? That would be much better, I think everyone would agree. Yes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and yes, everyone would be happier if people put more thought into what they wrote.

So, you judge me by the two posts you saw me submit? I understand that you may not agree with me, but basing your opinion of me on two or three messages I posted on here... c'mon, I think that's a little unfair.

<< << me thinks rsi didn't read and thinks ms wants to charge for all email >>



me thinks RSI is a dumbass. >>

I think you're getting the wrong message here. I did read, and I know they aren't trying to charge for all email, I have used their service in the past and I currently keep an address with them to use with MSN messenger. I'm not a Microsoft slanderer/hater/basher, I simply believe that email (INCLUDING POP3/SMTP) should not cost money. I don't agree that it should cost money, it's that simple. Why do you have such a big problem with my opinion? Why does me thinking email should be free, make me a dumbass? Rethink it a little bit. I'm not saying Microsoft should give me everything for free. How's a company supposed to make money? Obviously they need to sell their products. Well, I just happen to disagree that email should be one of those products, because it's so common and easy to obtain. Anyway I don't want to argue about this, cause obviously some people simply can't handle the fact that my opinion is mine and I'm entitled to it.

Anyway, a comment on one of the replies.

<< 2MB may not be enough and since Yahoo gives 6MB, that's the only downfall for Hotmail... why's everyone complaining about their SPAM? You get SPAM with every email address unless you never use it (I never use my rh71.com email address for anything outgoing). >>

For most people, 2MB should be plenty of space. However, many people may surpass the limit and would like more space. There's no reason to need more than 6-10MB for email unless you're a very heavy user or keep lots of attachments in there. To address the issue of SPAM, how about a question : Where does it all come from? How does it find everyone's email address? Does MS automatically submit their emails to spam-engines? I doubt that. Are there scripts that automatically try emailing hotmail addresses and such? And you shouldn't just say "you always get spam with email", cause that's quite un-true. I have quite a few email addresses and I never get spam at any of them. I don't even get spam at my hotmail anymore, I used to - but it's stopped. I'm happy with my email accounts, they all function well, efficiently and quickly. I'm satisfied with the current hotmail service aside the fact that it's slow on dialup - given a broadband connection it's nice. No complaints. So please don't call me an MS basher, hotmail hater, or whatever name you have in mind relating to that.

Your personal feelings towards me really are not important, but I'd appreciate it if you have something like "you're a moron" or "RSI is a dumbass", if you could keep it to yourself. It doesn't reflect well on someone's level of maturity when they start calling people dumbasses, and even just quoting it and not even putting in worthwhile comment. Sad. I miss the old UBB days. 😉

This is a discussion about Microsoft's Hotmail service. Personal attacks should be left out, and people should respect others' opinions. What's so difficult with this?

Thanks for your time, I'm leaving this thread now.

-RSI

PS: I am a college student - therefore I don't ALWAYS have time to be on AnandTech forums. I figured I'd put in a couple comments before class, and look what we have here? you look like a moron cause you haven't posted in a while! Give me a break. Stop jumping to conclusions, I didn't "run away".
 
Considering I already get no less than 5 pieces of spam a day (even though I haven't provided that e-mail address to ANYONE), I don't think I'll pay for the ability to store even more spam in my mailbox.

Yahoo is sooooo much better about filtering out that crap (or not selling e-mail addy's to advertisers).
 


<< I give you a F minus for this useless thread :disgust: >>



Uhm... so why are you posting in it? Let alone reading it?

😛

And the title isn't misleading at all. In fact, it's totally accurate. So 😛!

Heh. Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the forums today.

I reiterate, "Yay, I've started a flame war! 😀"

SunnyD
 
If you think that title is accurate you should change your
course of study to law
It is VERY MISLEADING!!!!!!!!!!!
and if you had half a brain you would realize that

You would make a perfect attorney 🙁
 


<< SunnyD, how old are you? >>



What relevance is that?

But to satisfy your curiosity, old enough to be wise, wise enough not to be stupid.

SunnyD
 
Um, the thread title is totally misleading. PLEASE change the title so other people won't be tricked into coming in.
 
So, you saw that MS is now giving the option to get more space in their hotmail account than they are getting now, except they wanted a little but of money for it, and you found this funny enough to make a thread about it? And what's more you entitled it "BAHAHAHAHA!!! M$ wants to charge you to use hotmail now!!! LOL!"...

Alright...
 
Okay, that's it.

First off, this is the off topic forum, not the hot deals forum. What relevance is it if a topic title is misleading or not?

Furthermore, would someone please explain to me how the title is misleading for god's sake?!

I mean really people... M$ would absolutely love it if you signed up for the extra email space and gave them a little money. Hence, they WANT to charge to use hotmail.

I am not changing the title, so if you don't like it, tuff. As far as I'm concerned, it is completely accurate, and it expresses my point. After all, it is off topic isn't it?

SunnyD
 
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Furthermore, would someone please explain to me how the title is misleading for god's sake?!


your title should have stated that ms wants to charge you for extra email services. not email alone. if you can't see that well, no one can help you. stupid nef, shame your rating is off.
 


<< Furthermore, would someone please explain to me how the title is misleading for god's sake?!


your title should have stated that ms wants to charge you for extra email services. not email alone. if you can't see that well, no one can help you. stupid nef, shame your rating is off. >>



My god, are people realy this stupid?

SunnyD
 


<< So? 🙂

I use 2 megs. I could use more. I wouldn't mind having more...but can't really be bothered to pay $13/year for more. Hotmail owns! And you know this - that's why you use it! >>



hahaha. I for one don't use it. if I must I use yahoo and I get 6 MB :Q

but normally I will use my own domain e-mail account with I don't have a limit at all. 😀


besides yahoo will charge for additional features has well.
 
MS can charge what they want. As long as its free then I'm staying with it. Its fast for me on dial up and I hardly ever use the web based hotmail I always use outlook express to receive my emails. I also save all of my emails off line as well so it doesn't matter if it does get deleted. It has happened a few times and thats annoying but hey its free.

Msn messenger is tied to it and I like that. It tells me when I instantly have emails and its good for me.

It does everything I want it to and its fast so no complaints from me. It has been down a few times but I can't say much as I'm not paying for it.
 
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